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Great TED Talk: Every day there are news reports of new health advice, but how can you know if they’re right? Doctor and epidemiologist Ben Goldacre shows us, at high speed, the ways evidence can be distorted, from the blindingly obvious nutrition claims to the very subtle tricks of t...

Firstly, our condolences go out to the family for their loss. While some patients with leukemia are cured, a substantial number still succumb to this deadly disease. Nevertheless, it seems that expectations are high and everyone wants a 100% cure rate which is still not possible today...

The Malaysian Medical Association (MMA) is very concerned to hear that Dr Jeyakumar Devaraj, a Life Member of the MMA who has been detained under the Emergency Ordinance since July 2nd 2011, has gone on a hunger strike, as announced by his wife R. Mohanarani yesterday, “to seek justic...

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I REFER to “Overworked housemen” (Letters, Oct 5) and other grouses that increasingly make their way into our media by Generation Y housemen. As a specialist in a government hospital in Selangor, I feel that instead of silence that may be misconstrued as guilt, there is a need to repl...

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This post in KevinMD is a timely reminder for doctors using social media like Facebook, Twitter and Googleplus I’d like to highlight the important points again 1) Set your privacy settings to high Many Facebook users do not know how to set their privacy settings. You could have friend...

This ebook is not meant to compete with other much better emergency medicine guides, but to ensure that the doctors encountering medical emergencies will have at least a simple, quick and adequate guidebook to enable them to manage their patients safely. There are numerous excellent m...